#471 How to Understand, Celebrate, and Leverage Neurological Differences in Relationships

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

There are always differences in relationships – differences in culture, differences in family of origin, differences in communication and conflict style – but what if you and someone you love just think differently? The thing is, while we may live in a world designed for neurotypical people, the world is full of people who are neurodivergent; those of us who process, learn, experience and interact with the world in ways not considered typical.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Kelli Willard joins Juli in an enlightening episode of Java with Juli as they talk about why a broader understanding of neurodiversity is so important when it comes to building strong and healthy relationships in marriages and in families.

Guest: Kelli Willard, LMFT

Kelli’s Instagram: @love_all_the_brains

Kelli’s Practice: Love All The Brains (Note: Kelli is not accepting new clients at this time)

Book: Neurodiverse Couple Therapy: A Practical Guide to Brain-Informed Care

Blog: The Challenge of Grace

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0:00.0	Well, hey there. Thanks so much for joining me today for Java with Julie. I'm Julie
0:05.4	Slattery, your host. And this podcast is a listener supported outreach of
0:09.8	authentic intimacy. We have a very interesting conversation for you today. We're
0:15.2	gonna be talking about neurodiversity. Now that word was new for me too, so don't
0:20.0	sweat it if you're not familiar with it. In essence, it means that not everyone's
0:24.2	brain is wired the same way. Some of the people we love has symptoms of ADHD,
0:29.7	autism, maybe a traumatic brain injury, or other ways of perceiving the world
0:34.3	that differ from the majority of the population. If you have a spouse, a good
0:38.9	friend, a child, the sibling, or maybe it's you who is neurodiverse, it might be
0:43.5	really frustrating for you to communicate and understand each other. Well,
0:47.5	that's where we're headed for today's conversation. My guest is licensed
0:51.8	marriage and family therapist Kelly Willard. Kelly specializes in neurodiverse
0:56.3	counseling and she's incredibly passionate about helping people and couples
1:00.3	understand themselves so that they can navigate relationships, life, and
1:04.2	really the world as a whole. Along with running her own practice called Love
1:08.5	All the Brains, Kelly is the author of the upcoming book Neurodiverse
1:12.8	Couple Therapy, a practical guide to brain informed care. It's coming out this
1:17.2	fall and she hopes that her book will fill much needed void in the marriage and
1:21.3	family therapy space. Now, two quick notes before we get into today's
1:25.7	episode. First, Kelly is going to refer a lot to the DSM. Now, this is the
1:31.7	diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders used by the American
1:36.3	Psychiatric Association. Second, my conversation with Kelly gets a little
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